Please Do Not Disturb Quotes

#1. The Lassans were insatiably inquisitive, and the concept of privacy was almost unknown to them. A Please Do Not Disturb sign was often regarded as a personal challenge, which led to interesting complications ...

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

James Thurber

#3. Surprised, Ralph looked down at the card again. There was a second number there, marked J.W. "Day or night," Wyzer said. "Really. You won't disturb my wife; we've been divorced since 1983.

Stephen King

#4. I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

Robin McKinley

#5. I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

Om Puri

#6. If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

Tina Maze

#7. If the country were open on its borders, new forms would certainly immigrate, and this also would seriously disturb the relations of some of the former inhabitants.

Charles Darwin

#8. When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

John D. Barrow

#9. It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others
to shake them out of their rut.

Jostein Gaarder

#10. Things disturb us in the night. Sometimes they are our consciences. Sometimes they are our secrets. Sometimes they are our fears, translated from one idiom to another.

Stacy Schiff

#11. When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

Eric S. Raymond

#12. Of course, an old wine is like an old lady, and traveling can disturb her.

Julia Child

#13. I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Gerald Stern

#14. Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

Harper Lee

#15. You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant.

Padgett Powell

#16. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried ... I am a rock.

Paul Simon

#17. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#18. Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."

Judith Krantz

#19. Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

#20. A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Alan Ayckbourn

#21. It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. PEACEFULNESS: Do not allow life's challenges to disturb your tranquility. Life is far too precious to be wasted on nonessential issues.

Judy Smith

#23. We do not act as your precious Christians do, slaughtering other Christians for believing the wrong way. Yes, we ask for payment. That is the price of safety. But we allow all people under our rule to believe what they will, so long as they do not disturb the peace.

Kiersten White

#24. The wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...

John Geddes

#25. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that

Alex Flinn

#26. My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

William The Silent

#27. I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler's voice from behind me. 'It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.

Micheal Rivers

#28. Don't let anything disturb your inner peace and tranquilly.

Debasish Mridha

#29. I reflected, not for the first or last time, that when you are reading, others think they can disturb you because you are not doing anything.

James Tipton

#30. A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.

Rob Bell

#31. If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

Denis Diderot

#32. We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs ... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

Vance Havner

#33. If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Catherine Booth

#34. That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

A.R. Rahman